Supporting network evolution and incremental deployment with XIA
Robert Grandl, Dongsu Han, Suk-Bok Lee, Hyeontaek Lim, Michel Machado, Matthew K. Mukerjee, David Naylor · 2012
eXpressive Internet Architecture (XIA) [1] is an architecture that natively supports multiple communication types and allows networks to evolve their abstractions and functionality to accommodate new styles of communication over time. XIA embeds an elegant mechanism for handling unforeseen communication types for legacy routers.